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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>EZEKIEL</span>
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CHAPTER 27
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Ezekiel laments the fall of Tyrus and the loss of her riches and commerce.
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The</span> word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came again unto me, saying,
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Now, thou son of man, take up a <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 28: 12 (11-12).">lamentation</a> for Tyrus;
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And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, <i>which art</i> a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I <i>am</i> of perfect <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 2: 15; Ezek. 28: 12.">beauty</a>.
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Thy borders <i>are</i> in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
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They have made all thy <i>ship</i> boards of fir trees of <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 3: 9 (8-9).">Senir</a>: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
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<i>Of</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zech. 11: 2.">oaks</a> of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches <i>of</i> ivory, <i>brought</i> out of the isles of Chittim.
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Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 10: 4.">Elishah</a> was that which covered thee.
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The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise <i>men,</i> O Tyrus, <i>that</i> were in thee, were thy pilots.
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The ancients of Gebal and the wise <i>men</i> thereof were in thee thy <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE those who repair leaks in ships.">calkers</a>: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/27/9b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB trade, or exchange.">occupy</a> thy merchandise.
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They of Persia and of <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 66: 19; Jer. 46: 9; Ezek. 30: 5.">Lud</a> and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
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The men of Arvad with thine army <i>were</i> upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 10: 22; Ezek. 38: 13.">Tarshish</a> <i>was</i> thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all <i>kind of</i> riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
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Javan, Tubal, and <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 10: 2 (2-3); Ps. 120: 5; Ezek. 38: 2.">Meshech</a>, they <i>were</i> thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
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They of the house of <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 10: 3 (2-3); Ezek. 38: 6.">Togarmah</a> traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
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The men of Dedan <i>were</i> thy merchants; many <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 39: 6.">isles</a> <i>were</i> the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee <i>for</i> a present horns of ivory and ebony.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/16a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB Aram.">Syria</a> <i>was</i> thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
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Judah, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Land of.">land</a> of Israel, they <i>were</i> thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/27/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Judg. 11: 33.">Minnith</a>, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
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Damascus <i>was</i> thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
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Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
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Dedan <i>was</i> thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
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Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/21a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB traded.">occupied</a> with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these <i>were they</i> thy merchants.
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The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they <i>were</i> thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
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Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, <i>and</i> Chilmad, <i>were</i> thy merchants.
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These <i>were</i> thy merchants in all sorts <i>of things,</i> in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/25a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 48: 7; Isa. 2: 16.">ships</a> of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
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&#182; Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/26a" mark="a" type="E" title="Gen. 41: 23; Ps. 78: 26; Jer. 18: 17; Mosiah 7: 31; Mosiah 12: 6.">east</a> wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
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Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that <i>are</i> in thee, and in all thy company which <i>is</i> in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
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The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
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And all that handle the oar, the mariners, <i>and</i> all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land;
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And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rev. 18: 19.">dust</a> upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
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And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart <i>and</i> bitter wailing.
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And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, <i>saying,</i> What <i>city is</i> like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?
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When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
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In the time <i>when</i> thou shalt be broken by the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/27/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 26: 19.">seas</a> in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
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All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in <i>their</i> countenance.
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The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never <i>shalt be</i> any more.
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